New road safety campaign calls for greater visibility on the roads

As the nights draw in and the clocks go back, it’s time once again for the perennial road safety campaigns to call for cyclists and pedestrians to take their share of responsibility by making sure that they’re visible.

But today I’m delighted to announce another important new road safety campaign.

Because every day when I look around on our streets it is clear to me that it’s not just cyclists and pedestrians who are failing to do their bit by making themselves visible. There is another group of road users who are all too often failing to do their bit.

You clearly don’t work in a local government highways street lighting team. Otherwise you would of filtered out the images where there was no way of proving that the collards has not been vandalised or stolen moved as part of petty vandalism that occurs. This extents to solar cells which are covered ‘painted over’ or just broken for the sake of it. For instance are you suggesting that the image showing the cone which is behind a fence in a closed garden green area ended up there by being struck by a vehicle? With narrative like that you water down your own afgument and drive away those who would be more sympathetic to your way of thinking! You want cycling more popular you and other bloggers like you need to avoid the ‘them and us’ narrative that keen cyclists advocate. What you have done with this post is come across as a whiny baby throwing your dummy out the pram. I’ve worked in highways for 20years in road safety and I can tell that a logos percentage of your images are not from vehicle strikes but you know carry on the internal combustion engine is for the scrap heap but the car as a mode of transport will remain….

You may well work for council. Councils are responsible for this myopic design that focusses on breeding a dangerous monoculture in our neighbourhoods, to the exclusion of walking and riding a bicycle, to the detriment of our most vulnerable citizens; the children and the elderly. Let’s have a round of one handed golf clapping applause for councils!

So any damage that can’t be proven to be a motorist’s fault cannot be attributed to motoring – sounds like an implicit government policy. Meanwhile, far too much local government fails to provide space for cycling based on irrational fears of what problems might happen and blames any damage that could possibly have been cased on cyclists on cycling – it seems like government usually has one rule for motorists, another for cyclists, so the a “them and us” narrative isn’t really our fault, is it? Let’s say that when government gives cycling its fair %age of the transport budget, maybe then we’ll start to think we’re being treated equally?

Collards are a member of the cabbage family eaten with hot sauce in the southern United states, I am sure they are rarely found on Britain’s roads Tony. When they are the cabbages are often to be found driving either overpriced German saloon cars, or vans..